Top Ten Reasons to Oppose U.S. aid to Israel

[Jos]

US diplomats like to say that when it comes to the Palestinian-Israeli peace process the US plays the role of ‘an honest broker. “But the US’s massive foreign aid payments to Israel mean that, in fact, the US is taking sides. Israel is the largest recipient of US foreign aid in the world, receiving more than $6 billion annually-or about $8 million every-day. Until the US stops lending its weight to Israel through biased and unfair support, a truly just peace will remain elusive.



1) Israel Systematically Violates the Human Rights of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories



Every day, Israeli security forces in the West Bank and Gaza violate articles of the 4′h Geneva Convention on Human Rights, an agreement that governs wartime rules of engagement and to which Israel is a member. Palestinian homes and agriculture fields are routinely demolished to make way for illegal Israeli settlements. Israeli soldiers also regularly arrest and detain-often for years-Palestinians without due process. According to Amnesty International, Israel is the only country in the world that legalizes torture.



2) US Aid Violates US Law



Laws passed by Congress prohibit the president from furnishing military aid or selling weapons to any country that consistently violates internationally recognized human rights standards or uses those weapons in an offensive-rather than a defensive-manner. The US State Department says that Israel engages in “torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment of punishment, prolonged detention without charges and trial, causing the disappearance of persons by the abduction and clandestine detention of those persons, and other flagrant denials of the right to life, liberty, or the security of people.” Weapons purchased from the US by Israel are regularly used against unarmed Palestinian civilian populations.



3) Israel is an Exclusionary State



The Israeli Law of Return allows Jews from all over the world to immigrate to Israel and gain citizenship there, but Palestinian refugees who were forced to flee their homes in 1948 and 1967 are excluded from returning to their homes and towns of origin. Even Palestinian citizens of Israel-who make up 20 percent of all Israeli citizens-are third-class citizens, and are not given many of the same rights as Israeli Jewish citizens. Israel’s official policy of discriminating against non-Jewish citizens makes the country a kind of “trickle down democracy,” and not one the US should be supporting.



4) Israel Is Illegally Occupying Palestine



The United Nation’s General Assembly has repeatedly condemned the Israel settlements in the Occupied Territories as illegal. Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are forced to live in apartheid conditions, and the Israeli settlements built on confiscated land separate the Palestinians from each other, making for isolated Palestinian Bantustans surrounded by Jewish-only neighborhoods. By carving up the Occupied Territories in this way, the rapid construction of Israeli settlements has prevented the creation of a viable Palestinian state. Israel’s continued occupation of Palestine, sanctioned and maintained by the US, is one of the most serious obstructions to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East.



5) US Foreign Aid to Israel Maintains the Military-lndustrial Complex Here in the US



The US requires Israel to use 75 percent of all the military aid it receives to buy US-made arms. Consequently, every year billions of dollars are funneled from US taxpayers to hundreds of arms corporations, who then wage lobbying campaigns pushing for even more foreign military aid. The results of this policy are twofold: it not only diverts much needed funding from domestic education and social programs, but it makes US citizens complicit in the abuses committed by the Israeli army.

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One-third of the US’s entire foreign aid budget goes to support Israel. This is seven times more money than the US gives to all of sub-Saharan Africa. Dozens of poor countries could use this money better than Israel, which doesn’t need this support: the country has more nuclear weapons than China or France, and the Israeli economy is booming thanks its high tech industry. US aid to Israel funds a brutal military responsible for regular human rights abuses, the occupation of Palestine, and the expansion of illegal settlements. If there is to be a chance for a just peace in the Middle East, unconditional US support to Israel must end.
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[SherriMunnerlyn]

Time to contact all members of Congress and let them know Americans do not support aid to Israel.

Appreciate anyone sharing websites they may know of with contact information for Congress members nationwide.

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

Israel appreciates the aid. Without it Israel is in danger. So thank you to the US, you really do help Israel out.

 

[Alfalfa]

How about this...

Quotes from Israel's most respected rabbi who just recently passed with 800,000 attending his funeral...

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef

"Goyim [non-Jews] were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel." "Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat." "With gentiles,...[God] will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one’s donkey would die, they’d lose their money. This is his servant... That’s why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew.”..."

Anyone who thinks this is isolated, think again.

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

We see so much "appreciation" to Gentiles who provide aid to Israel in the words of that racist rabbi who just died.

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

Never mind that. What is important is the US aid to Israel. It is fantastic how much America supports Israel. Without that aid Israel would certainly not be such a wonderful place.

 

[MHunterB]

I don't see any reason why Americans should heed what an Iranian living in Spain suggests about American foreign policy - especially if those same Americans resent any Israeli making such suggestions.

But thanks for the idea: We Americans are sick and tired of foreigners like the OP trying to push us into following the agendas THEY want. Time we wrote to our Congress folk and instructed them to support our ally Israel even more enthusiastically than they have in the past!!!


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Buyer Beware: Veterans Today and its Anti-Israel Agenda

Posted in Anti-Semitic, Extremist Propaganda by Evelyn Schlatter on January 6, 2011


Veterans Today (VT) is a website that bills itself as a “military veterans and foreign affairs journal.” And, indeed, many of its contributors are military veterans or veterans’ advocates from across the political spectrum. VT also offers some information about veterans’ benefits (lifted from the Veterans’ Administration) and links to home and other loans for vets.

But start reading the posts, and you’ll find something else entirely: myriad claims that there was a conspiracy behind 9/11 (Israel orchestrated it, in cahoots with the American government), that the American government is a puppet (of Israel), that the Holocaust never happened or was greatly exaggerated (Jews made it up to manipulate non-Jews), and, most recently, that Julian Assange, the man behind Wikileaks, is a pawn (of Israel).

Notice a theme? ( continue to full post… )

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

Never mind that. What is important is the US aid to Israel. It is fantastic how much America supports Israel. Without that aid Israel would certainly not be such a wonderful place.

Dont be counting on it continuing too much longer.

 

[Hoffstra]

Never mind that. What is important is the US aid to Israel. It is fantastic how much America supports Israel. Without that aid Israel would certainly not be such a wonderful place.

without Zionist campaign contributions and Holocaust guilt trips, there would be little American aid to Israel.

 

[Hossfly]

We see so much "appreciation" to Gentiles who provide aid to Israel in the words of that racist rabbi who just died.

What are you talking about, Frau Sherri. Your friends hate America no matter how much the U.S. tries to help them, and I am sure you are aware of how many of your friends the Intelligence Agencies here have picked up before they were able to carry out another atrocity. You are safe from your friends atrocities living where you do, but pity the poor people in New York if your friends get successful again. No doubt the people in New York were happy that your friends planning to do something terrible in the New York subways were foiled before they could act. Say, Frau Sherri, haven't you anything to say about the racist Ayatollahs and Mullahs who are throwing Christians into jail in Iran? Why are you so silent about these racist Ayatollahs and Mullahs? Were you told to keep quiet about this from the Imam at the mosque in Reseda?

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

This is the campaign, pictures of American children without food to eat.

And beside that the story of the US giving Israel over 3 billion dollars a year.

I can see the images on posters in my mind.

Now, the challenge is to get that image in front of the eyes of every American.

And get the full facts in front of them.

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

Artists, now is your chance, be creative, let us get some designs for posters created.

 

[Sunni Man]

The avowed zionist jew Janet Yellen is set to become the Federal Reserve Chairman.

This will be the 5th consecutive Jew to head the Federal Reserve.

When this fact is pointed out the screams of anti-semitism are deafening. .

 

[Hossfly]

The avowed zionist jew Janet Yellen is set to become the Federal Reserve Chairman.

This will be the 5th consecutive Jew to head the Federal Reserve.

When this fact is pointed out the screams of anti-semitism are deafening. .

How about we campaign to have her convert to Islam, then we'll have a Sunni chairman. How would that grab you. Would it quieten your howls?

 

[Sunni Man]

The average American is so brain washed that we could have 20 Juden head the Fed and there wouldn't be whimper of protest.

Yet, if a muslim was even considered for the Chairmanship the howls of anguish and outrage would be off the chart. .

 

[Hossfly]

The average American is so brain washed that we could have 20 Juden head the Fed and there wouldn't be whimper of protest.

Yet, if a muslim was even considered for the Chairmanship the howls of anguish and outrage would be off the chart. .

What does that tell you? About Christian America and their trust and acceptance of Jews, I mean. That America is brainwashed?

 

[Sunni Man]

We have a ZOG government and our banking and money supply is totally controlled by zionist Jews who's loyalty is to Israel first and the U.S. a distant second place.

Someday the American public will wake up to this fact and demand their country back. ..

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

The average American is so brain washed that we could have 20 Juden head the Fed and there wouldn't be whimper of protest.

Yet, if a muslim was even considered for the Chairmanship the howls of anguish and outrage would be off the chart. .

The best approach to deal with our problem is to turn the focus on the needs of Americans that are not being met as over 3 billion dollars a year is sent to Israel.

It is not a jew versus muslim problem.

We have an American problem and one place we all are seeing it all over this country is in the plight of children in our schools.

More and more of them every day do not even have food to eat outside free lunches or free breakfasts they are fed at school.

We send Israel 3 billion dollars a year to kill children in Palestine, as American children go to sleep hungry.

 

[SherriMunnerlyn]

Let us Americans demand our country back, a country that takes care of the needs of Americans first and foremost.

I heard there is movement to cut aid to Egypt, that is a good start.

 

[proudveteran06]

We have a ZOG government and our banking and money supply is totally controlled by zionist Jews who's loyalty is to Israel first and the U.S. a distant second place.

Someday the American public will wake up to this fact and demand their country back. ..

Aid to Israel will never stop. Deal with it. Keep paying your taxes!